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squirtlebonflow commented on Don't Run into the Woods   onwriting.games/daily/202... · Posted by u/frantufro
ncr100 · 2 years ago
I'm not the author.

Yeah it is strange. I've been thinking about that too, while writing them. I believe that I'm using this opportunity to understand rejecting criticality, as it relates to intention.

To go deeper, I think I frankly am lonely, and also feel pain about the dissonance between the commentary .. talking on this thread about the style of the author and missing the point of the author. That touches me in a sensitive place, related to the loneliness, where in my personal life I sometimes don't feel like I'm being heard in spite of my best efforts. Also some abandonment history. :P

Recently I took a 16personalities.com test and it gave me infp, And you know those tests are just like a slice of inside into you, not the whole picture. But it gave me an opportunity to think about some of the difficulties that I've had throughout my life socializing and how I have adapted to them. Largely around where I have some visionary optimistic idea and the responses a bunch of "poo poo's" from those around me, if you know what I mean? Resulting in me feeling rejection, and throughout my life trying to make sense of why. So it's top of mind.

Does this make sense?

squirtlebonflow · 2 years ago
It makes sense why you are feeling that reaction to the reactions to your comments and how that relates to people's mixed reactions to the author's gamedev advice... what I can't understand is the phrase "rejecting criticality, as it relates to intention."
squirtlebonflow commented on Don't Run into the Woods   onwriting.games/daily/202... · Posted by u/frantufro
jvanderbot · 2 years ago
Writing down "How you think" is not good general-audience presentation of information. That's probably Journalling.

"Writing" is probably supposed to be general-audience presentation of information. By avoiding all rules of presentation, you invalidate everyone's ability to quickly digest the information. I tried to scan this as I usually do, and was forced to read each excruciating, disjointed, malformed line one by one to get to the point.

What a mess.

squirtlebonflow · 2 years ago
Disagree entirely.
squirtlebonflow commented on Don't Run into the Woods   onwriting.games/daily/202... · Posted by u/frantufro
Omroth · 2 years ago
It's the bold that really puts me off.
squirtlebonflow · 2 years ago
Really? I find that it makes it so much more pleasant and easy to read. I read it much faster than I would have without bold. The author is telling you which parts of the sentence are most important, so your brain frees up that processing part where you have to figure that out.
squirtlebonflow commented on Why you should probably be using SQLite   epicweb.dev/why-you-shoul... · Posted by u/rrampage
Ensorceled · 2 years ago
One thing I don't get ... are people really having problems getting PostgreSQL, or even MySQL, up and running? Is this REALLY a dev/devops/ops hurdle for people?

Just seems strange that is actually a problem.

Don't get me wrong, I use SQLite ... it's just not the database for my company's management web portal.

squirtlebonflow · 2 years ago
The vast majority of my development time for any project is setting up a server, database, web framework, etc. It's a massive pain in the ass and gets in the way of what I'm actually trying to do.
squirtlebonflow commented on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)   blog.jonstodle.com/in-whi... · Posted by u/Capricorn2481
codebje · 3 years ago
That's not quite what the parent is trying to say. Assume that int is not None. Create a type called T that is int|None - a term of type T can be an int, or it can be None.

Now have a function whose argument is T|None. Substitute in the definition of T and you get (int|None)|None. If the function's argument is None, what does that mean? Was it given a T that happened to be None, or was it not given a T? Nobody knows.

squirtlebonflow · 3 years ago
I don't think you should write code where it makes a difference if the None came from a T that happened to be None or from a None.
squirtlebonflow commented on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)   blog.jonstodle.com/in-whi... · Posted by u/Capricorn2481
lmm · 3 years ago
"If it's None then it's not T". It's very natural to write code that handles the case where the value is None, handles the case where the value is T, but subtly malfunctions if T can be None (e.g. you might write a cache and use None to represent the value not being present in the cache - but then your cache silently fails to cache if the thing you were caching returns None).
squirtlebonflow · 3 years ago
How is it natural to write code like that?

If it's None, don't put it in the cache. If T is None, don't put it in the cache.

if (typeof input != None) putInCache(input)

squirtlebonflow commented on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)   blog.jonstodle.com/in-whi... · Posted by u/Capricorn2481
sanderjd · 3 years ago
My first thought was, "I wonder what the author considers a non-breaking change..."
squirtlebonflow · 3 years ago
Comments, updating dependencies, or documentation
squirtlebonflow commented on Young people are flocking to astrology   washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Given_47 · 3 years ago
Yea the 538 stuff (at least that audience) is a prime example of the McNamara fallacy[0]. It’s easy for people to find comfort in what can/is being measured and appoint it as objective truth, and consequently disregard anything that can’t be easily quantified.

Like u alluded to, people like to at least feel in control. And in the case of astrology it manifests in being able to have a simple explanation for things.

And now that I think about it, I’m sort of puzzled y more things don’t seem to get chalked up to random chance. It’s a simple enough explanation and seems ripe for abuse but strangely doesn’t seem to be. Maybe cuz by definition, its randomness isn’t that satisfying of a conclusion for people to draw

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

squirtlebonflow · 3 years ago
Because nothing really ever happens because of random chance. Everything has a reason, and to pretend it happened because of random chance is to say you don't care enough what the reason was to try to figure it out.
squirtlebonflow commented on Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco   bigtechwiki.com/index.php... · Posted by u/Andrex
SoftTalker · 3 years ago
Mankind will endure. Maybe in fewer numbers than today, but it's hard to imagine anything that would completely wipe out the human species worldwide, even if things collapse back to hunter-gatherer survival.
squirtlebonflow · 3 years ago
That's not... a good thing. Who cares about "the preservation of the species". If 7 billion people die and the remaining survivors are happier than ever, that's a huge loss IMO.

Dead Comment

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